Skip to content, or skip to search.
Skip to content, or skip to search.
- PROFILE
- READER REVIEWS
Blue & Gold Tavern
|
|
Critics' Pick
Hours
Daily, 4pm-4am
Nearby Subway Stops
F, V at Lower East Side-Second Ave.; 6 at Astor Pl.
Payment Methods
Cash Only
Profile
Everybody's favorite East Village dive pulls in a regular crowd of college kids, bikers, local senior citizens and random eccentrics—like the long-haired guy whose only sound is a high-pitched shriek. Mixed drinks run for as little as three dollars, but that means the pretty Ukrainian owner will have to head to the fridge in the back room for juice, and you might be out of luck with ice. Stay long enough to play pool on the ratty table and mine the juke's selection of hits from the '60s to the '80s. But if at all possible, use the bathroom elsewhere—don't say we didn't warn you.
ExtraIn addition to black-and-white photographs documenting the bar's history, Blue & Gold's walls are decorated with fading pictures of European men blowing long Alphorns.
Note
No phone
Related Stories
Featured In
- Ten Little Cities: The Rebel Youth (5/25/09)
| 6.5 | "Recommended" Average Reader Rating on a Scale of 10 |
 |
Best place for a "single malt tasting"
yaz322 from 10023 | Posted on 12/22/09
At $4 - FOUR DOLLARS - a shot, there is no other place in NYC (other than your living room) where you can taste seven different single malts in one place, for under $30. Macallan, Laphroaig, Talisker, Balvenie and others are available at the same ridiculously low price as Black label.
thanks for the weak shots..
dutch from | Posted on 1/5/05
Sure the place seems divey, but it is populated with mostly yuppies. What really pisses me off is that they actually measure out the booze, where are we, Britain? When I want a glass of whiskey to sip on I want more than just the bottom eighth inch of my cup full.
Advertising
-
Best of New York Nightlife
The newest, grooviest places to flirt, laugh, dance, drink, and blast a rifle.
Eight Year-End Films Vie for Oscar Contention
Sondheim and Lansbury on a Lifetime in Theater
The Black Keys Release Their Hip-hop Debut 
How the BQE Became an Artistic Muse
On Great Jones Street, Shopping Is Art 
Classic Fare, Old-world Charm at Le Caprice
Buy a Brownstone for Less Than $1 Million
Fifty of the City's Tastiest Soups
Reasons to Love New York 2009
New York Politicians Refuse to Quit
A-Rod Has Babe Ruth in His Sights
McCain Yields to the Party's Pressure
